Fifty years of Unix time
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it's insanely obvious that the new decade starts in 2020 if you remember that time began in 1970
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Ah yes we are currently entering the sixth decade ever
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no, you're 1-indexing again. 1970 to 1979 inclusive was decade 0. this is decade 5
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Programmed in C - always expect off by one errors.
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It's funny. I've seen several different programming and scripting languages, and only *two* of them start counting at 1. Those are classic Basic and Lua. And classic Basic let you do "OPTION BASE 0" to bring it in line with literally every other popular language at the time.
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epoch win
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And apparently ends in 2038
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it's ok we've upgraded Time
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This is extremely insensitive to those of us west of the Prime Meridian who distinctly remember a few hours of 1969.
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